!! C a l v i n b a l l !!

[rcannon100]

Calvinball, the only true Freezing Saddles game, where the rules are constantly made up and the points don’t matter.

I am Tim the Enchanter, keeper of the score, final arbiter of the rules.

Your quest is to seek thee the gameball, hidden secretly amongst the cycling trails inside the beltway (but not to be found in any federal park).

Seek the game ball. Maketh up a new ordinance for the game. Hide the sacred ball. Post your new ordinance along with guidance on how those who follow can seek the gameball. Thou shall find, hide and post within the same hours 24.

For finding the gameball, ye shall be awarded 5 points, less a point for each day that passeth before the gameball is once again uncovered.

Ye may find the gameball but once during each orbit of the sun.* Ye may possess the gameball but once every other turn.

If your new ordinance nets three likes, ye shall likewise be award points equaling five and your ordinance shall be implemented as law of the game, which all who play must loyally adhere.

This be not organized competition. This be Calvinball. New rules are obliged to follow the spirit of Saint Calvin and Saint Hobbes. New ordinances shall not thee be bills of attainder but must generally apply to all fools of venture into our midst. New ordinances cannot benefit the ordinance’s scribe uniquely. New ordinances should make the court jester smile upon thee, and shall not place any in existential peril.

If a new ordinance shall contravene an old ordinance, the ordinance with highest net likes shall be declared the law.

Those who play shall seek their reward as follows:
• Rosalyn Award :: The player with the ordinance that has acquired the most net likes at the time of the next find
• Miss Wormwood Award :: The player with the most implemented ordinances
• Spaceman Spiff Award :: Best Calvinball
• Calvin Award :: Tim’s Award of Mystery (oooooooooohhh)
• Hobbes Award :: The Hobbes Prize is to be awarded to the person whom played but scored the least amount of points.
• Susie Award :: Most swag points
• Lost Dog Rescue Award :: Best picture of your dog

** Consider Thee Calvinball a Hot-potatoe game – not a hide-and-seek game. This be not geocaching. More, we wish the Calvinball attain perpetual motion, constantly moving, from pilgrim to pilgrim. (Translation: dont make your hides hard or your rules constraining. The more silliness the better)
** NOTE This is not a winner take all game. “The points dont matter“

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* The Sun orbits around the earth. Only heretics would suggest otherwise. We burn heretics. Well, only if they weigh the same as a duck.

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[CBGanimal]

@DrP 170745 wrote:

It is Calvinball, just make a new rule that allows you to do what you did.

Good point! I say the Haiku requirement is suspended and the next post should be in Spanish! Ha!

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[rcannon100]

Tim, the Enchanter is catching up on being Dungeon Master. Couple of things to keep in mind.

First…. people are being fantastic. Tim the Enchanter has lost all control of this game – which is exactly what should have happened.

Effective ordinances are IF – THEN statements. In other words, IF there is (non) compliance, THEN what is the reward (punishment).

For example, a new Calvinball with four likes gets 10 points.

Example, “hints must be in Haiku.” Okay….. what if they are (aren’t)??

Second, only one new ordinance per find. And yes, a subsequent draft ordinance can undo an existing ordinance. The ordinance with the most net likes wins.

Third, I used to geocache. Geocaching is a game of hiding cheap tupperware in parks and finding it with million dollar GPS satellites.

(1) NPS hates tupperware. Really. Its best to stay clear of NPS land. If you make a hide on NPS land, be supper respectful

(2) The number of times the bomb squad has been called because tupperware has been hidden…. in a parking lot, in a play ground, under a bridge….. you would not believe. In this era of neurosis, please make sure no one will think your container is a bomb

[sjclaeys]

@rcannon100 170749 wrote:

(2) The number of times the bomb squad has been called because tupperware has been hidden…. in a parking lot, in a play ground, under a bridge….. you would not believe. In this era of neurosis, please make sure no one will think your container is a bomb

So the holy hand grenade of Antioch is really out?

[rcannon100]

Scoring

Josh
Josh’s bourbon sat un-noticed by school children for a couple of days so he gets 3 points for the hide.
His Haiku ordinance got 6 likes so he gets 5 points for that.
His bourbon based new Calvinball got only 3 likes – so bupkus for that.
Tim the Enchanter however likes Bourbon so Ptthhhhh – 5 points!
Josh is awarded 13 points.

SteveO
SteveO’s multijurisdictional rule did not net 3 likes.
SteveO’s humongous um ball got 4 likes and therefore 10 points
It took pilgrims less than a day to find his humongous um ball and therefore he gets all 5 points.
Tim the Enchanter likes SteveO’s creativity. 2 extra points.
SteveO is awarded 12 points.

CBGB‘s points will be divined upon the next fined.

I am Tim. I am Arbitrary.

My unholy scorecard.

[Vicegrip]

@sjclaeys 170753 wrote:

So the holy hand grenade of Antioch is really out?

OMG My family is looking at me and wondering why I just gargled 1/2 my after dinner drink.

[Judd]

Calvin ball was no longer under the bridge at about 5:30.

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[CBGanimal]

Working for DHS I did think about the container issue and hoped I was able to put it out there so the DC home bound commuters would find it fast…let’s hope! Or I’m going to feel really bad…

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[rcannon100]

@CBGanimal 170761 wrote:

Working for DHS I did think about the container issue and hoped I was able to put it out there so the DC home bound commuters would find it fast…let’s hope! Or I’m going to feel really bad…

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Geocachers have used some dumb containers. I mean really dumb. Just be mindful of security theater.

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[huberww]

Found fast, but I posted much slower. Calvinball has been removed from the lair of the 14th Street Bridge trolls!

Calvinball is now at the highest spot in Arlington County. Major Hill, it is not. If you ascend the Williamsburg Soulsucker segment, you will be very close. Or you may approach from the top of the popular bike road named for Virginia’s indigenous people.

And while the Union troops enjoyed a wonderful vantage over much of the Commonwealth from this spot, this site’s intrinsic aesthetic beauty leaves something to be desired. Your goal lies at the foot of a “No Trespassing” sign, near the chain link fence. Careful of the cat vine!

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[Vicegrip]

@rcannon100 170658 wrote:

We await your malevolent participation (why do I think your Jedi training could cause a great disturbance in the force?)

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York peppermint patty for the Win!

Wow, Check out the grip on those tires!

[Steve O]

@huberww 170778 wrote:

Calvinball is now at the highest spot in Arlington County. Major Hill, it is not. If you ascend the Williamsburg Soulsucker segment, you will be very close. Or you may approach from the top of the popular bike road named for Virginia’s indigenous people.

And while the Union troops enjoyed a wonderful vantage over much of the Commonwealth from this spot, this site’s intrinsic aesthetic beauty leaves something to be desired. Your goal lies at the foot of a “No Trespassing” sign, near the chain link fence. Careful of the cat vine!

Once again, this clue does not resemble a haiku.

[rcannon100]

SCORING

CBGanimal
5 for the find
5 for the ordinance
10 for the new Calvinball
When is SOMEONE going to pass an ordinance for cool swag?? Never mind, I will reward myself. 2 points for COOL SWAG
CBGanimal is awarded 20 points

Huberww
5 points for the find
No new ordinance
No new Calvinball
5 points for working for the very BEST federal agency
Huberww is awarded 10 points

I am Tim. I am Arbitrary.

[Steve O]

@rcannon100 170756 wrote:

SteveO
SteveO’s multijurisdictional rule did not net 3 likes.
SteveO’s humongous um ball got 4 likes and therefore 10 points
It took pilgrims less than a day to find his humongous um ball and therefore he gets all 5 points.
Tim the Enchanter likes SteveO’s creativity. 2 extra points.
SteveO is awarded 12 points.

All praise to Tim the Enchanter. No disrespect, but one wonders about thy math.
10 points + 5 points + 2 points = 17 points

[Steve O]

Humble query regarding ordinances:

Shalt though be requyred to follow said ordinancef? If not, are there confequences? Are adherers rewarded and/or non-adherers penalyzed?

[chuxtr]

@Steve O 170842 wrote:

All praise to Tim the Enchanter. No disrespect, but one wonders about thy math.
10 points + 5 points + 2 points = 17 points

If the rules can change, so can the math.

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